alright now...something is not right...

[northcat_8]

Authored a DVD using DVD-Lab Pro....

The original files were MPEG-2 from my video editing app. there was nothing wrong with them.

I author the DVD, make the img file and play it using Daemon Tools in WinDVD and I got no sound.

I go to the folder and try to play the .mpa files using WMP...no sound
I go to the folder and try to play the original MPEG-2 files...no sound
I go to the VIDEO_TS folder to play the authored DVD...no sound

I burn the DVD anyway, put it in the stand alone and the sound is fine.

It would seem I have some kind of malfunction.

I have sound on any AVI file I play, I have system sounds and ripped DVDs have perfect sound. It's only these particular files.

In DVD-Lab Pro I imported the MPEG-2 files and DLP demuxed (or whatever it does) and created the .mpa files.

Anyone have a clue what my issue could be before I go tearing into it and screw something else up.

[bugster]

It looks like the mp2 audio codec on your PC has gone missing, no idea why though!

A 'repair' type re-install of windows should fix it, though there may be easier ways.

[Abond]

Hmm, I had before something similar with a SVCD. I wanted to include second audio track in it that was not very important to me so I compressed it as 80 kbps mpa to save space. This track didn't work on computer (using MPC) but was fine on DVD standalone. It seems my system was not able to play it back, but only at 80 kbps. If I compress it at 64 kbps (or 96 kbps) it works.
So maybe it is something like that.

[edsmith77]

northcat_8
in the realm of the ridiculous, did you have the volume control turned down? I did that once. Though my machine had taken a vacation.

[northcat_8]

northcat_8
in the realm of the ridiculous, did you have the volume control turned down? I did that once. Though my machine had taken a vacation.

no no not this time...but I have before

What makes the problem odd to me, is the MPEG-2 original files do not have sound either...and I know they should, because the AVIs used to create them had audio...and they had audio before too.

mp2 audio codec..says bugster alright...I'll check it out...it's more of a clue than I had, I had no idea where to start.